United States v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 550 · 1992
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2023
13 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on McNally v. United States · Dennis v. United States · Griffin v. United States · Hammerschmidt v. United States · Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not be express, but rather can be an informal tacit understanding between the coconspirators. . . . [and] can be proved entirely by circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“proscribes two distinct types of conspiracies”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.